Dozbik
Player Valuation: £8m
Circumstances might change then with his deal running out, but either in the summer or in January, the Palermo president stated that it would take a silly offer to sign him, I'm sure he said over €40-50m?!
I'd have to look the articles up but I definitely read it cos Chelsea were linked to him at the time!
Yeah, there's a strong likelihood that he said that but that's nothing more than the usual garbage talk of a club manager in the media. Everybody knows if he'll change clubs it will be for significantly less, all he's doing there is trying to push up his price by publically stating that he's not for sale not even for a billion etc., which is understandable. I remember e. g. Bayern having signed Mehdi Benatia the CB in the recent summer from Roma, Roma's president said in an interview last season when asked about a transfer rumour that some team (I think it was Man City back then) was in for Benatia and they were reportedly willing to pay 30 million euros for him and he replied "Benatia's left foot is worth more than 30 million euros" and then they sold him for 26 million euros to Bayern. They needed the money and were forced to sell. But that guy had a long term contract, so Roma were in a strong position negotiationwise, this lad will only have one year remaining, if he doesn't want to stay, I'd put my hand in fire that he won't cost more than 20-25 million euros, because no team would pay more for a player who's having his first noteworthy season in a top four European league, he's still only just a promising prospect who has a hefty risk factor in him, he might turn out world class, but that's far from certain.